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Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center How does stigma and discrimination, as witnessed in Jamaica, perpetuate the global HIV/AIDS epidemic?

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The full sting of her condition became clear in the way her friends and neighbors avoided her on the streets of her working-class Kingston neighborhood. "Chloe" is a twenty-seven year old mother of two who contracted HIV from her estranged husband, who himself is now ill due to the complications of AIDS. The children, both school-age are in good health but still endure the leaden stigma attached to AIDS in the form of taunts and exclusion.

Like leprosy or the bubonic plague of centuries past, the burdensome indignity of social alienation is sometimes as difficult to bear as the r...

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